Missouri Valley College students continued their dominance of the Missouri Broadcast Educators Association (MBEA) College Media Competition awards this year. The competition is held annually to showcase individual accomplishments and group projects.

Austin Bohlen, KMMO News Anchor won first in the hard news category, Special Music Programming, and sports play by play.

Students from MVC competed against a dozen other Missouri colleges and pulled in a record number of awards this year – 12 total – including an astounding seventh consecutive year winning the multi-camera live sporting event category. The honors will be presented March 31-April 1 at the spring MBEA awards ceremony and conference in Cape Girardeau.

There were five other first-place awards for Missouri Valley:

Zaire Hardin won the category for best commercial and Colin Williams was first with best Public Service Announcement. There was also a team win for best non-recurring news show.

Other top performers included Sakina Komuro and Cody Hohenberger for their honorable mentions in the best commercial category; Bohlen’s second place for hard news; and Hohenberger’s two third place finishes in the hard news and PSA categories.

Hohenberger graduated in December and works for a TV station in South Carolina, and Bohlen, who will graduate in May, will be the voice of the Marshall Owls on KMMO next year.

Photo courtesy of Missouri Valley College.